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Spain’s disposable workers
If a weapon is given to someone, it is normal to use it when needed. And that’s exactly what Spanish businesses are doing with the legal weapons that they have been given to hire and fire workers at their convenience. As a result, the labour market has become a roller coaster, up and down in … Continue reading
Corporations run the show in Transatlantic Trade Deal
‘A disturbing business bias’ in the translatantic free trade deal has been revealed by Corporate Europe Observatory. An access to documents request to the secretive Commission showed that 93% of the meetings between Brussels bureaucrats and ‘stakeholders’ during the preparations of the negotiations were with big business – a ‘parallel world of a very large number … Continue reading
Why Fiat prefers newspapers to cars
Fiat prefers to invest in newspapers these days, rather than car-making. And it is apparently all the fault of the unions. Giorgio Cremaschi explains Announcing this week for the umpteenth time the investment in its Sevel plant in Abruzzo, southern Italy, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said that those investments will be the last in Italy, … Continue reading
Unravelling the spin: a guide to corporate rights in the EU-US trade deal
This week saw the start of the first round of negotiations for a far-reaching transatlantic trade deal. In the face of growing opposition to plans for expanded corporate powers in the proposed pact, the European Commission is trying to dispel concerns with propaganda. See through the rosy PR with Corporate Europe Observatory’s guide to investor-state … Continue reading
Mad Men of the Roundtable
Merkel and Hollande have given key positioning to the European Roundtable of Industrialists and their corporate wish-list. They are set to influence a future Competitiveness Pact – a next step towards authoritarian neoliberalism. Corporate Europe Observatory
EU needs to stop multinationals ‘blacklisting’ workers
Corporations operating in the UK, France, Ireland and Sweden have been accused of ‘blacklisting’ so it is time for the EU to legislate to outlaw the practice – says MEP Public Service Europe
Creating a sustainable future for Spain’s mining communities
The miners have taken to the streets because the Popular Party government is not fulfilling its commitments to the mining sector under a five-year Plan for Coal agreement signed between government and unions last year. Aid to mining companies in this year’s budget was cut to 111 million euros from 301 million euros in 2011. These … Continue reading
Big business dominates EU policymaking new research finds
Industry experts and corporate lobbyists have effectively captured key areas of policy advice within the European Commission, according to new research More at Corporate Europe Observatory
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WAGES SLIDE
Wealth Inequality in Europe
RADICAL VOICES
Italy’s Healthcare Crisis
550 days, 29 Workers, Zero Job Losses
Filthy Rich
SANTA DRAGHI’S COMING
POPULAR FIGHTBACK
FLORENCE’S BUS LUMACA
Popular resistance delivers results
FRENCH FACTORY OCCUPATION
Watching Corporate Europe
- The Trade Secrets Protection Directive Is Still Dangerous For Freedoms and Rights
- Ombudsman's ruling: Stoiber’s appointment process constituted ‘maladministration’ and was misleading
- Lobbying over croissants and coffee
Fight discrimination in Europe – Amnesty Int’l
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